Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
Speaker 1: of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, ready,
Speaker 1: let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Albarez
Speaker 1: here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every day
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday, Noop Civic three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific,
Speaker 1: sixth Eastern. It is Wednesday, and this program, you know
Speaker 1: that means we got Dynamite, a e W Dynamite coming
Speaker 1: up here tonight. And you know what else is coming
Speaker 1: up soon me on video. We'll get that figured out
Speaker 1: here in a second. But anyway, here, hey, here we are. Hey,
Speaker 1: we got dynamite coming up tonight and a lot of
Speaker 1: things a w related. There have been some hirings, there
Speaker 1: have been some promotions. Tony Cohn did an interview with
Speaker 1: Sports Grid talking about recent w w E changes, most
Speaker 1: notably the retirement which was actually a resignation of Vince
Speaker 1: McMahon and uh and we also got the full lineup
Speaker 1: for the show tonight. Eight scheduled segments, including just added
Speaker 1: a interview segment with John Moxley and You're not gonna
Speaker 1: go wrong with in a interview segment with John Moxley.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk about that as well as the raw
Speaker 1: ratings for Monday Night, which man, I love. I love
Speaker 1: posting ratings because then you can you can look through
Speaker 1: my mentions and find out how he should mute and
Speaker 1: or block. He has a fun day. We'll talk about that,
Speaker 1: and uh, we got Connor McGregor getting a major movie role.
Speaker 1: And we have got to the n x T Television report.
Speaker 1: Now have you been watching Ron SmackDown. There have been
Speaker 1: a fair number of noticeable changes on Ron's SmackDown. I
Speaker 1: cannot say the same for n x T. The only
Speaker 1: change it was visible to me at all on this
Speaker 1: show is that they have turned Katana Chance and Caden
Speaker 1: Carter back baby face. We've been watching the show less
Speaker 1: several weeks. They've been acting very hellish but hundred percent
Speaker 1: baby faces now. So we'll talk about that later on
Speaker 1: as well. Lots to get into back in a moment.
Speaker 1: Observer Live back on the show. Bright Over is here
Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer Live like Simper BT also Wrestling Observer dot Com.
Speaker 1: I want to quickly talk about the raw number here
Speaker 1: today because the show did very, very very well and
Speaker 1: as bullish as I am on w w E. Everyone
Speaker 1: went a little too nutty on Twitter about this number.
Speaker 1: Here's deal, everybody, and it's probably gonna be the same
Speaker 1: thing with n x T. Tonight. Raw had no commercials
Speaker 1: in the first hour of the show. That is nine
Speaker 1: of the reason the show did as well as it did,
Speaker 1: So people losing their minds at Vince's gone, We're going
Speaker 1: back to these now you had a you had a
Speaker 1: commercial free first hour, and as a result of that,
Speaker 1: our one did two point four three million viewers. They did.
Speaker 1: Here's the good news. They did keep two point to
Speaker 1: nine million of those fer hour two and one point
Speaker 1: nine seven million for hour three, So if you're looking
Speaker 1: for good news, I mean the good news is they
Speaker 1: did an excellent job holding the audience over three hours,
Speaker 1: So that's good. But you know, unless they're gonna do
Speaker 1: a commercial free first hour every week, you are not
Speaker 1: going to regularly be seeing, at least anytime soon, two
Speaker 1: two million viewers every week for Raw and a point
Speaker 1: six one in eighteen to forty nine, best number since WrestleMania,
Speaker 1: which did a point six three. Obviously the day after
Speaker 1: Summer Slam was a factor as well, so the number
Speaker 1: was inflated, but they did do a a pretty good job,
Speaker 1: especially that you know the third hour decline. They've had
Speaker 1: some bad third hour declines. Two point three million to
Speaker 1: two million is not that bad. It's still lost three
Speaker 1: hud people. But I do believe that part of the
Speaker 1: reason that they held those viewers, and it's it's actually
Speaker 1: common sense. If you do a first hour with no commercials,
Speaker 1: it does a huge number because people don't tune out
Speaker 1: during the breaks. If you normally do a third hour
Speaker 1: where in the last half hour there's about seven minutes
Speaker 1: of wrestling and the rest is commercials and video packages, yeah,
Speaker 1: that hour is gonna absolutely tank. They didn't do that
Speaker 1: this time. They still like commercials in the third hour,
Speaker 1: but that insufferable period where for thirty minutes it's entrance commercial,
Speaker 1: entrance video package, entrance commercial. They didn't do that. So
Speaker 1: I think that helped helped cause the third hour to
Speaker 1: decline less than usual, but good number. It won't be
Speaker 1: that good next week, but overall a positive. Now, who
Speaker 1: were these people that filled your timeline with? Actually I
Speaker 1: didn't I didn't even read any of the um any
Speaker 1: of the comments. But but the way it works on Twitter,
Speaker 1: I don't even know why I mentioned this before. So
Speaker 1: if I post something and you know, a thousand people
Speaker 1: write something, goofy, and my mentions for some reason, like
Speaker 1: a dozen of those will just end up on my
Speaker 1: normal uh when I go up to you know, check
Speaker 1: my timeline. But it's it's like a random doesn't don't
Speaker 1: even know why. But anyway, I was just scrolling through
Speaker 1: today and oh, you know great number. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Hunter's gonna turn it. Oh this is no. It was
Speaker 1: a commercial free first hour that was nine of the
Speaker 1: reason and of course SummerSlam no angry a w Fans
Speaker 1: were saying, this is all a craziness. But if you
Speaker 1: watched n x T, they also had limited commercial breaks
Speaker 1: they did, Yeah you didn't notice. I like this show
Speaker 1: and I was like, god, this show is long. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there were no commercials in the first half hour and
Speaker 1: then they did some commercials, and I think the second
Speaker 1: hour there was like a long period with no commercials,
Speaker 1: like bro this staying forever to get through the show.
Speaker 1: So I'm not a fan of limited commercial interruptions. I
Speaker 1: want as many commercial interruptions as possible so I can
Speaker 1: fast forward through them, preferably not during matches. A little man,
Speaker 1: they did a commercial. I'll get to an x T later,
Speaker 1: but I think it was what match was it? They
Speaker 1: did a commercial break and they came back during the match,
Speaker 1: and literally the first thing we saw was a botch spot.
Speaker 1: Many rose and say the match started during a commercial,
Speaker 1: and so they come back from the commercial and the
Speaker 1: first move you see is Sarai is coming off the
Speaker 1: top and I guess, I don't know if Manny was
Speaker 1: supposed to catcher or what, but Sarai hit Mandy and
Speaker 1: fell down, and then Mandy stumbled and fell down. That
Speaker 1: was the first spot that we saw when we came
Speaker 1: back from the break. So we'll talk about that later.
Speaker 1: A Double announced on Wednesday they are expanding their talent
Speaker 1: relations team, promoting four familiar names within that group and
Speaker 1: bringing on former Impact women's wrestler Madison Rain as a
Speaker 1: coach for the women's division. Rain begins her new role tonight,
Speaker 1: thirty six years old, part of the Impacts lasted of
Speaker 1: tapings in Louisville. She lost to Musha Slamovic and miaum
Speaker 1: uh Sanjay, qt at Buck, and Tony Shavonni have all
Speaker 1: received promotions, three of which are to the vice president
Speaker 1: level that is now the VP of Production and Creative Coordination,
Speaker 1: where he will coordinate communication of a w storylines, liaise
Speaker 1: between post production and key staff. That's a lot of words.
Speaker 1: He got a promotion. He's gonna go back and forth
Speaker 1: the stuff describe as liaise en Roll. Marshall is now
Speaker 1: VP of Show and Creative Coordination. He does a lot
Speaker 1: of words as well. Buck is now VP of Talent Development,
Speaker 1: where he also a lot of liaising going on. Apparently
Speaker 1: you make more money to liaise. I was unaware of
Speaker 1: that today. Yes, you do. You are very valuable when
Speaker 1: you can be the sav between wounds and such. Shavanni
Speaker 1: received a promotion as Senior Producer and Special Advisor to Talent.
Speaker 1: Chris Daniels will continue to serve as Manager of Talent Relations.
Speaker 1: To announce any of those did they mean to? Did no?
Speaker 1: Did they need to? It's not like they're a publicly
Speaker 1: traded company or anything like this. I understand why if
Speaker 1: there's a part of me where it's like all you
Speaker 1: did was give everybody online, if something happens somebody else
Speaker 1: to tag about, what are you gonna do about this?
Speaker 1: When it comes to your role of this and that
Speaker 1: it's like I don't know. I guess it's a good thing.
Speaker 1: Though if you look at it from the aspect of
Speaker 1: he's obviously trying to delegate authority. I would assume that's
Speaker 1: what this is about and try to make things a
Speaker 1: little bit easier on himself, considering he's the last call
Speaker 1: for these sorts of things. So yeah, Tony kNN believes
Speaker 1: that new people in charge of w w E is
Speaker 1: a good thing. Well, we're on the same page. N
Speaker 1: spoke to Sports Grid on the recent changes. He said, quote,
Speaker 1: it's going to change the competition, but I think that's
Speaker 1: a good thing. A w has got a big fan base.
Speaker 1: We're a hundred thirty countries now around the world. Here
Speaker 1: in the US, we've built a great fan base. That
Speaker 1: petition is going to change. It's a different person in
Speaker 1: the chair opposite me. But I don't think that's going
Speaker 1: to be a bad thing for the wrestling fans necessarily. Well,
Speaker 1: it's definitely not a bad thing for the wrestling fans,
Speaker 1: and you know what else, not a bad thing for
Speaker 1: the wrestlers either. Con also said the move benefits wrestlers themselves,
Speaker 1: probably more so than ever. He said, I imagine that
Speaker 1: great wrestlers are going to be in demand again. I
Speaker 1: think it's probably gonna be good for the wrestling fans
Speaker 1: because that's going to be one of the most exciting
Speaker 1: things about pro wrestling free agency. It's one of those
Speaker 1: things that was really missing from the sport for almost
Speaker 1: two decades. For a w came in because there was
Speaker 1: not a legitimate competitor in the free market. Was one
Speaker 1: of the worst things I think that happened in American
Speaker 1: sports in my lifetime when WCW closed down, well, in
Speaker 1: terms of wrestling, sure as heck, was one of the
Speaker 1: worst things. So you know my my prediction very quickly,
Speaker 1: you know, my Mike, in the in the short term,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some it's gonna be a bumpy road
Speaker 1: for a w because you know, w has got money
Speaker 1: and they're going to be looking to get some people.
Speaker 1: And I think that and I know this, this is
Speaker 1: not I think because I know this. You know, there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people that two weeks ago would
Speaker 1: not have been considering strongly going to w w E,
Speaker 1: whereas now I think that they are open to the idea.
Speaker 1: And furthermore, I mean we've seen small changes, small positive changes.
Speaker 1: If these if we continue to see positive changes. The
Speaker 1: number of people that are willing to look at w
Speaker 1: w E is going to be even bigger, and the
Speaker 1: number of people that are at least considering it, uh,
Speaker 1: they may more than consider it. So uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the Cody thing was very important. As we talked about
Speaker 1: Cody goes there, it gets buried, that would have been
Speaker 1: bad times. They pushed Cody to the moon. That opened
Speaker 1: a lot of people's eyes. And but mostly the people
Speaker 1: that were like bigger, you know, the w w E
Speaker 1: style guys. Now, even if you're not a w w
Speaker 1: E style guy, I mean, you could get an opportunity.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be tough in the short term for
Speaker 1: a w but in the long term there's gonna be
Speaker 1: too many people in too few spots in a W
Speaker 1: or in w w E, and then there will be
Speaker 1: people looking to go to a w if they've got
Speaker 1: a good television deal with money. So anyway back in
Speaker 1: a moment, we'll get Mike's thoughts. Observer Live. Actually the
Speaker 1: show bright Over is here, Wrestling the Observer Live. I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm just we have our chat here and uh,
Speaker 1: some of them just cannot Cody things overblown. Listen do
Speaker 1: you think people are dumb? Okay, a guy left a W.
Speaker 1: He walked into w W E with likely a seven
Speaker 1: figure deal as a main eventor with his a W
Speaker 1: character and got to push. You're telling me you don't
Speaker 1: think anybody in a W went Wow, that's intriguing. That
Speaker 1: really opens my eyes there. Well, I can tell you
Speaker 1: because I heard from them. Okay, but you know, if
Speaker 1: you don't believe me, you can use your own brain
Speaker 1: and see that that would be intriguing for people, especially
Speaker 1: because before he showed up, remember we here, Oh he'll
Speaker 1: be chasing seven title. Oh I wonder if he'll be
Speaker 1: star dust? Remember all that? Well that didn't happen at all.
Speaker 1: The exact opposite happen, even kept his music. You don't
Speaker 1: think that opened anybody's eyes. Do you think these people
Speaker 1: are dumb? Come on, it did. Now It's not the
Speaker 1: end all and be all, because he is Cody Rhodes,
Speaker 1: and he was there before, and there is a relationship
Speaker 1: and he is the first guy back, and so there's
Speaker 1: all these things where what works for one may not
Speaker 1: work for everybody. But it's a new page is turned.
Speaker 1: And I know people don't want to hear that. They
Speaker 1: don't want to hear about these changes that may or
Speaker 1: may not slowly get made and all that other stuff.
Speaker 1: I know they don't want to hear about it, but tough,
Speaker 1: You're probably gonna have to hear about it, because I'm
Speaker 1: sure they do in the next couple of years want
Speaker 1: to put their best foot forward when it comes to
Speaker 1: talking and dealing with talent number one, for all of
Speaker 1: the things that have happened in that company and the
Speaker 1: culture that is currently being investigated, maybe it's time to, like,
Speaker 1: you know, change some things there. But also because they
Speaker 1: look at m JF and they look at other people
Speaker 1: on that roster powerhouse Hobbs, and they look at other
Speaker 1: people and they go, we may want to have those folks.
Speaker 1: And now Vince is out of the way, and now
Speaker 1: Uncle Paul is here. You remember what Uncle Paul did
Speaker 1: for n x D. So are we gonna see massive
Speaker 1: wholesale changes? I don't know, as see him Punk City,
Speaker 1: he doesn't think there's going to be any changes in
Speaker 1: the culture whatsoever. We'll have to see. But the Cody
Speaker 1: odes the whole deal with him. And granted he also
Speaker 1: has a character that fits perfectly in with W W
Speaker 1: E and I think m JF. There's other people that do.
Speaker 1: Some other people may not be so lucky, but it
Speaker 1: at least is giving them an option where in a
Speaker 1: big option that you may have something to kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, compare yourself against compare the company you're working for. Again.
Speaker 1: So look, everybody's gonna throw their flags down over this,
Speaker 1: and they have been and they will continue to do so.
Speaker 1: But one thing about talking about the death of w
Speaker 1: c W as somebody that was a big n W
Speaker 1: A fan and grew up with Crockett Promotions and was
Speaker 1: a bigger w c W fan for quite a long time,
Speaker 1: and try to hold onto that ghost for as long
Speaker 1: as I could. Yeah, it was bad for the wrestling
Speaker 1: business that it died, but it needed to die like
Speaker 1: it did. And in the hindsight, being all as many
Speaker 1: years later, you look, you gotta leave scorched earth. Was
Speaker 1: the whole thing about killing a territory was you left
Speaker 1: scorched earth in most cases, and you had to kill
Speaker 1: everything to rebuild it back up again. And you see
Speaker 1: the direction that Ring of Honor took things you saw
Speaker 1: because there were no options, but ways to watch things
Speaker 1: became easier, you know, lime, Well, I heard all these
Speaker 1: things of where you would download Japanese wrestling shows and
Speaker 1: that became more of a thing. So all of that,
Speaker 1: the rise of m M A that was taking place
Speaker 1: during that time that nobody really remembers now, but the
Speaker 1: Pride in the k One and all that sort of,
Speaker 1: all of that stuff, all of it was essential and
Speaker 1: necessary to get us to where we are today. So
Speaker 1: as sad as that was, and as much as it
Speaker 1: sucked for a lot of people, including people that lost
Speaker 1: jobs who had lifetime jobs in the business and wanted
Speaker 1: to have jobs in the business, yeah that was sad,
Speaker 1: but it needed to be done to get us to
Speaker 1: where we are now. All right. We got the Dynamite
Speaker 1: Show Tonight, un Disputed Elite Return, thunder Rose and Tony
Speaker 1: Storm versus Britt Baker and Jamie Hayter, A Christian versus
Speaker 1: Matt Hardy, Powerhouse Hobbs in Action, Jericho versus Wheeler, Utah
Speaker 1: Winter faces Moxie for the Inner World title at Quake
Speaker 1: by the Lake on August, Come on, what we should
Speaker 1: actually want You by the Lake shows. I just don't
Speaker 1: understand why they name every show. I understand it if
Speaker 1: it's a charity event or something like that. But it's
Speaker 1: like we have subtitles for every show. Now, it's not
Speaker 1: just show. There's no there's no special show tonight, it's
Speaker 1: just Dynamite. We're building to Quake by the Lake. I
Speaker 1: guess we are, Yes, we are. You want to run
Speaker 1: a pay per view every month? I don't. I'd much
Speaker 1: rather have three. I don't want to every other show
Speaker 1: for no reason, even on every other show, bro n
Speaker 1: XT does the same thing. They got heat Wave in
Speaker 1: two weeks. Mr uh whatever. The name of your podcast
Speaker 1: is the other one you do, Adam Milt. You like
Speaker 1: New Japan, I like it's funny every single solitary New
Speaker 1: Japan Strong show has a name, every single solitary one
Speaker 1: of them, not every other week, not once a month.
Speaker 1: It's ignition, it's retribution, it's fascination. It's my stupid goofy
Speaker 1: names to have for these things. Ever ever thought, by
Speaker 1: the way that that it's run by an analytics guy
Speaker 1: who probably uh sees that when you actually name it
Speaker 1: a special name, it does better than you know e
Speaker 1: that that. So if it does better, why doesn't he
Speaker 1: do every show that way? Maybe he could title Rampage
Speaker 1: that way and more people you know what, if Christmas
Speaker 1: is special, let's just do it every day. It'll be
Speaker 1: special every day. I'm trying to give you a business
Speaker 1: lesson here. Oh yeah, let me know. Are you trying?
Speaker 1: But you're not listening? USD star Connor mc gregor said
Speaker 1: for his first movie role, Amazon Studios announced Wednesday, McGregor
Speaker 1: will be playing a role in Prime videos reimagining of
Speaker 1: the film Roadhouse. I'm Angry. The movie will begin production
Speaker 1: this month, will be available on Amazon Prime Video when
Speaker 1: it's released. He could watch it then get angry maybe
Speaker 1: to be better. Don't know. Most of these remakes are
Speaker 1: not better. These reimaginations of things just never seemed to
Speaker 1: work out for me. Okay, in Roadhouse, why do you?
Speaker 1: Why do you defecate on the classics? People? You funny
Speaker 1: about this? By the way, you know it's funny. What
Speaker 1: Jake Gillen Hall or Jillen Hall, depending on how you
Speaker 1: want to pronounce it. Uh, you know what he plays
Speaker 1: in this Roadhouse? Who? He plays? A former UFC fighter.
Speaker 1: Butconor McGregor's got another role. I guess he's I guess
Speaker 1: he could be a former. Yeah, you'll probably play the
Speaker 1: role that Rohnda Rousey played, which he made remade Roadhouse.
Speaker 1: You know they've remade this before, don't you? Did they
Speaker 1: actually remade this with Rohonda Rousey? Where have you been? Bro? Well?
Speaker 1: How was it? I didn't watch it. I haven't even
Speaker 1: seen the first one. That doesn't surprise me. You should
Speaker 1: have got better things to do, like watch n x
Speaker 1: T two point oh and Tuesday Nights. Yeah, think about
Speaker 1: subtitles for the Brian and Vinnie Show. Connor McGregor is
Speaker 1: very excited to expand his storied career to Hollywood in
Speaker 1: this reimagining of Roadhouse, A beloved classic god person Karen
Speaker 1: Kessler Pop proper twelve bottles are gonna be getting thrown
Speaker 1: everywhere in this, isn't it? Well? Probably maybe he'll work
Speaker 1: for free if they do that, because he's a businessman.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm sure. The only way he's working for
Speaker 1: free is if it's on work release. Again. The only
Speaker 1: thing I want to know is who plays Morgan? Who
Speaker 1: plays Terry Funk? And will Terry Funk be in this movie?
Speaker 1: Probably be McGregor. I need Terry Funk in this movie,
Speaker 1: even if it's just one cameo. You go to his house,
Speaker 1: You just show up there put the camera on him.
Speaker 1: I don't care how you do it. Get the funker.
Speaker 1: In that movie, this person says only suckers work for free.
Speaker 1: You know who says something like that, someone poor, And
Speaker 1: here we go making fun of poor people. I'm not
Speaker 1: making fun of him. I'm pointing out. I'm pointing out
Speaker 1: if if you, if you own okay, if you own
Speaker 1: a distillery or whatever whatever, you would say that he
Speaker 1: owns for his proper twelve And they say, listen, uh,
Speaker 1: you do this role for us, and we'll have proper
Speaker 1: twelve all over this movie. It'll be every everything anybody
Speaker 1: drinks will be proper twelve. They'll hit each other with
Speaker 1: proper twelve bottles. Uh. At the end, the hero there's
Speaker 1: a proper twelve bottle to you know, ignite the motorcycle, whatever, whatever.
Speaker 1: That's a good deal because you're gonna make way more
Speaker 1: on your proper twelve than he's gonna make two. Uh
Speaker 1: for his first ever movie. You think this guy's making
Speaker 1: twenty million for this movie? Not a chance, not a chance.
Speaker 1: What do you think he is? The Rock? No, the
Speaker 1: Rock didn't have anything that many legal bills. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean he doesn't me does not know do not have
Speaker 1: that many legal bills. That's true. Oh my god, a
Speaker 1: million dollar Chico, twelve million dollars. Baby, I've worked for
Speaker 1: free before. Actually we're for free on these cameos. But
Speaker 1: you know everything, every little bit counts when when some
Speaker 1: of that going to trickle down, it doesn't trickle down, Mike, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm willing to work for it. What do we need
Speaker 1: to do here? Boss? Have we set it up for you? Oh?
Speaker 1: My own? Wait, didn't you laugh at the thought of
Speaker 1: me doing a cameo, including directly saying who would actually
Speaker 1: buy a cameo? Never do that? But you know what,
Speaker 1: if I get a cut, I'll set up your cameo
Speaker 1: for free, because it's sometimes I'll gladly cut you. I'm
Speaker 1: gladly all right after the breakwin top at n XT
Speaker 1: two point. But let's seeing the text message've been here
Speaker 1: very quickly. Oh, this person is talking about the draft.
Speaker 1: It's a good question what are THEYNNA do with this
Speaker 1: draft and brand extension? Because Vince pretty much gave up
Speaker 1: on it. But Hunter's back and they didn't have you know,
Speaker 1: there were I guess there were some SmackDown guys. Well,
Speaker 1: the fall seasons coming you know September October, here one
Speaker 1: new thing on n x T last night, the intro
Speaker 1: to wrestler and went to picture and picture intro the
Speaker 1: second wrestler and started the match also in picture and picture.
Speaker 1: Let's do more of that, put the less important stuff
Speaker 1: during the commercials. Well, that was a slight production change,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. They also, you know, they had
Speaker 1: to do a lot of commercials because they did a
Speaker 1: commercial free half hour. This stuff all has to be
Speaker 1: you know, made up for Look, I prefer that more
Speaker 1: than the we're gonna introduce somebody go to break comeback
Speaker 1: video package, all that sort of stuff. But if that's
Speaker 1: working for them as annoying as it is for me,
Speaker 1: that's then it's workin Well, let's go to the Break
Speaker 1: Observer Live. Well, let's talk about n x T two
Speaker 1: point oh everybody. There's some good stuff on this show,
Speaker 1: but there was also some stupid finishes. Not a fan
Speaker 1: of stupid finishes, but what can you do? Believe it
Speaker 1: or not. The opening match with Katana Chance and Caden
Speaker 1: Carter Toxic Attraction. You listen, Leone and Valentina ferraz at
Speaker 1: Ivy n Aisle and Tatum Paxley in a four way
Speaker 1: elimination match for the n x T women's titles. Dude,
Speaker 1: this match was impossibly good. I thought this was going
Speaker 1: to be a disaster. Looking wise, it was a disaster
Speaker 1: because somehow one half of the former Take Team champions
Speaker 1: wasn't allowed to choose a partner to be in the match.
Speaker 1: But I don't think there was one botch spot in
Speaker 1: this entire match. Everything everybody tried they pulled off. Even
Speaker 1: uh you listen to and Valentina Ferras, they had all
Speaker 1: these dives to the outside, they all look great. Places
Speaker 1: going crazy, and uh, it comes down to the end
Speaker 1: two Uh who was it? It was obviously Chance and
Speaker 1: Carter and uh yeah and J C. Jane and G. G. Dolan.
Speaker 1: So it comes down to those two teams. And they
Speaker 1: went back and forth for a while, and finally the
Speaker 1: baby Faces hit their finish off the middle rope, the
Speaker 1: combo fIF splash. This place went crazy when they won
Speaker 1: these titles and they're crying in the ring. There's a
Speaker 1: total baby Face moment. For whatever reason, they've been doing
Speaker 1: angles the last several weeks where they were they were
Speaker 1: acting helish, and I'm like, they're turning these two heel well,
Speaker 1: apparently that's been that's been changed because they won these titles.
Speaker 1: They cut a total baby face promo later they're so happy,
Speaker 1: they're crying, so great opener and no come herstals. So
Speaker 1: first half hour, I think there were no commercials on
Speaker 1: this show. Did you did you think your girl Katana
Speaker 1: Chance afterwards? Uh shot the whiskey and let loose like
Speaker 1: she likes to do. Of course they did. You know
Speaker 1: what I was thinking? You know? Uh? In Japan, Uh,
Speaker 1: they have certain wrestlers where you know their name, like Sonata,
Speaker 1: It's it's Sonata in all caps. One word. I think
Speaker 1: that I think that her name should be Katana Chance
Speaker 1: with an exclamation point, and every time that she comes out,
Speaker 1: it's like Max dupret how they have to say it
Speaker 1: like that. The announcers in the ring, the ring guy,
Speaker 1: I think that they should always announce them coming to
Speaker 1: the ring Caden Carter and Katana Chance with an exclamation point.
Speaker 1: But should Tatum Paxley be all lower case except for
Speaker 1: the packs part that should be capitalized, where it's Tatum
Speaker 1: Paxley tam No, I can't do it now, let's do
Speaker 1: it later. We had Carmelo and Trick. We're celebrating Carmelo's birthday,
Speaker 1: and Carmelo he shoot an open challenge and Giovanni Vinci
Speaker 1: starts shrutting down in the ring to accept, and Nathan
Speaker 1: Fraser zooms by him and jumps in the ring and
Speaker 1: steals his open challenge. It was bound to happen at
Speaker 1: I like this Nathan Fraser. He when he when he
Speaker 1: first started out as like what is up with your hair?
Speaker 1: And you know, a good worker, but what is going
Speaker 1: on here? This guy is totally I've turned a corner
Speaker 1: on him. He's he's just whacky enough. He's got a personality.
Speaker 1: He's got a weird, quirky personality and even the hair
Speaker 1: like fits this quirky personality. And he's a great worker.
Speaker 1: So Nathan Fraser Carmelo Hayes had a very good match,
Speaker 1: and uh he did not win the title. U there
Speaker 1: was interference from Trick Williams actually was Giovanni Vinci's at
Speaker 1: the desk and they had some big shebang and he
Speaker 1: ended up getting water spilled on him. So he got
Speaker 1: angry and he shoves Fraser off the top rope and
Speaker 1: then uh, Hayes hits the guillotine leg drop and gets
Speaker 1: the win. So good match sets up Giovanni Vinci and
Speaker 1: Nathan Frasier. We had, uh, God help me, horrible segment God,
Speaker 1: braun Breaker and j D mcdack can we get this
Speaker 1: match over with already? So braun Breakers out there and uh,
Speaker 1: JD mcdonne's in the ring. They're gonna do a contract
Speaker 1: signing or whatever, and j D mcdonneh's just troning on
Speaker 1: and on and the crowds doing a boring chant and
Speaker 1: finally braun Breakers like, can we sign this contract already?
Speaker 1: And j D says, well, I know the challenger normally
Speaker 1: science first, but and I like you too, and so Bronze,
Speaker 1: can you this thing? And he grabs the thing and
Speaker 1: he actually made this this uh, he made this comment.
Speaker 1: I can't remember what the comment was. It was something like,
Speaker 1: is this something that you can't beat me in size
Speaker 1: or ability? So you're trying to beat me with your brain?
Speaker 1: So you're dumb, that's what you're telling me, braun Breaker.
Speaker 1: You're a lunkhead. So anyway, he signs a contract. Then
Speaker 1: he hands it back to j D mcdonnaugh, who's supposed
Speaker 1: to be like, you know, he's just he's a surgeon.
Speaker 1: He's a butcher. He's gonna take these guys apart. So
Speaker 1: J D mcdonneh, I think, uh, dude, isn't it What
Speaker 1: are those pens that you poke? Like if you're gonna
Speaker 1: get a blood sample, you know that I'm talking about that.
Speaker 1: Give you a pen? Well, J McDonagh gets his pen
Speaker 1: and he goes chink on his finger and Braun break
Speaker 1: Crafts act like kind of creeped out, like this guy
Speaker 1: poked himself with a pin. Now there's a drop of blood,
Speaker 1: and so you know, mcdonnah pokes himself to get a
Speaker 1: drop of blood. And he signs a contract in blood
Speaker 1: and he's supposed to be like a tough, creepy guy,
Speaker 1: but then like his hands are shaking as he hands
Speaker 1: the contract back, like I don't know if he's squeamish
Speaker 1: of blood or something like that, but he didn't look
Speaker 1: like he was comfortable doing this. But his character is
Speaker 1: supposed to be anyway, this whole thing just sucked and
Speaker 1: can we get this over with already? I'm sick of
Speaker 1: his feud. Pasha MANI has showing him putting in the
Speaker 1: blood capsule before he was shoulder blocked last week. I
Speaker 1: think this actually might be worse than uh what's his
Speaker 1: name the last few that he had with gay Gaycy.
Speaker 1: This homide needs to get back in his car and
Speaker 1: drive back to the UK and Ireland. And I want
Speaker 1: Jordan deviln back or something, because this has been a
Speaker 1: miss for sure. We had Mandy Rose and Sarai and
Speaker 1: uh Man Surai. You know she's good, but not here.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's not her, it's Mandy. Watch this match.
Speaker 1: Watch this match, and just watch many Rose. If there
Speaker 1: was ever somebody who is so sick of being someplace
Speaker 1: and they just want to get out of here and
Speaker 1: they and I think she actually didn't interview recently where
Speaker 1: she's talking about she wants to go back to the
Speaker 1: main roster. She's so over it, and you can tell
Speaker 1: watching her matches. Her bumps are terrible. The match was
Speaker 1: not good. Well, you know what, that's not a good
Speaker 1: way to get out of there, considering that you were
Speaker 1: down there for a reason in the first place. And
Speaker 1: they give given her so many extra chances because she's
Speaker 1: beautiful and all the fitness magazines and all that rigamarole. Fine,
Speaker 1: they have a zillion great athletes on that roster. Now
Speaker 1: that would look good in fitness magazines, who may be
Speaker 1: actually coming along and becoming a better wrestler. The only
Speaker 1: saving grace that she's got is to put her on
Speaker 1: the main roster, put her with Sonia, and that's it.
Speaker 1: They're a lifetime tag team. That's how people like them
Speaker 1: the most. That's how they're going to be most effective.
Speaker 1: Other than that, you know, I don't want to see
Speaker 1: anybody lose their job. And I'm sorry get out as
Speaker 1: a fan, as if you were somebody watching, I would
Speaker 1: rather see somebody else have that position, have that time,
Speaker 1: have that spot. It's crazy. So so I got here
Speaker 1: with a jumping knee and pinned and then Rose was
Speaker 1: gonna beat her up, and uh outrage Zoe Start. Zoe Starts,
Speaker 1: gotta beat her for the title. This Zoe Start. She's good,
Speaker 1: she works well, the fans love her, she's got passion,
Speaker 1: she's got a beat her. Another one with triple H
Speaker 1: coming back. That was somebody who benefits from that big time.
Speaker 1: We had a Tiffany Stratton vignette. They put her back
Speaker 1: in her leo so she could do some gymnastics and
Speaker 1: she does a bunch of flips and everything like that,
Speaker 1: and then she goes time to go shopping, and off
Speaker 1: she goes. This is good, this is good. She did
Speaker 1: mention Wendy Chew and showed her rolling around and having nightmares.
Speaker 1: Then we had Duke Hudson beating up Axiom backstage and
Speaker 1: they end up rolling down of the ring. Axiom challenged
Speaker 1: them to a match. Duke Udson's beating him up, beating
Speaker 1: him up, beating him up, and then Uh Tilt the
Speaker 1: world victory roll Axiom pins the guy and big pop.
Speaker 1: Duke Cutson has a sell it like he's he's all
Speaker 1: angry that he lost. So hey, Brian does every win
Speaker 1: for Axiom a textbook victory. Yeah, I guess because he's smart,
Speaker 1: it all adds up. He ain't working because he's a
Speaker 1: mathematic issue. We don't know that you can't add up
Speaker 1: nothing and nothing get nothing. We had the Creed Brothers
Speaker 1: versus Tony D'Angelo and Stacks, So the story was that
Speaker 1: Roderick Strong was supposed to be there, but we just
Speaker 1: didn't show up. So the Creeds have to go down
Speaker 1: the ring by themselves and Uh they had a good match,
Speaker 1: and the finish came when Uh D'Angelo is down in
Speaker 1: the corner and uh, somebody is uh uh they slit
Speaker 1: him something. It's crowbar like the cane, yeah, and so
Speaker 1: he goes to grab the cane, but then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden he looks up and there is a returning
Speaker 1: Santos Escobar, and Escobar punches him out with the brass nuts.
Speaker 1: Stumb stumbles backwards, gets pinned by Julius because they pinned
Speaker 1: Julius last week. Julius gets a big win with a
Speaker 1: sliding lariat and this is leading to Escobar in D'Angelo
Speaker 1: one last time coming up in two weeks of this
Speaker 1: heat wave, show them pulling stacks out of the ring
Speaker 1: on the other side of that so he couldn't make
Speaker 1: to save it like mock one, and they cut to
Speaker 1: the shots that you don't see it, but it's like,
Speaker 1: I hope dude got his knees down because otherwise he
Speaker 1: face planted really hard. We had a great Roxanne Perez
Speaker 1: video because Roxanne Perez a baby face. She's so nice
Speaker 1: and sweet and she's doing this promo and it gets
Speaker 1: to the point where she has to talk about how
Speaker 1: Cora Jade called her a selfish be So there they
Speaker 1: build up to the spot and then she goes you
Speaker 1: called me, and they cut to a shot of Cora
Speaker 1: Jade saying it because you know, she's so pure she
Speaker 1: can't say the word, and so they keep going and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, she launches into this tirade
Speaker 1: on Cora Jade, and they don't cut away, and she calls, okay, anyway,
Speaker 1: this was a great promo by Roxanne, a great promo,
Speaker 1: And then they go to Jay backstage and she actually
Speaker 1: she did way better than last week, and she's ready
Speaker 1: to just she she wants she doesn't want this fight,
Speaker 1: so she's gonna turn it down. And Mandy Rose walks
Speaker 1: up and says, you know, we gotta get rid of
Speaker 1: this Zoe start. Do you mind taking care of that
Speaker 1: for me? Of course, like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: You're always concerned about yourself. And then Manny says, well, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to face her in two weeks. If you
Speaker 1: take her out, you can have her shot at the
Speaker 1: women's title. So now Corey Jade is considering it. Joe
Speaker 1: Gaze versus Brooks Jensen, Hm, bro, you wanna know why
Speaker 1: this guy is a virgin? His storyline? Look at his attire. God, dude.
Speaker 1: The funny thing isn't wearing the same thing Filthy Tom wears,
Speaker 1: but he wore it's so much worse. They have this
Speaker 1: match and Joe Gazy gimmick sucks good worker and he's
Speaker 1: doing his best with this guy, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, pretty deadly runs down the aisle. They hit
Speaker 1: the ring. They're in the ring, Brooks tosses one over Larry.
Speaker 1: It's the other guy out of the ring, but you
Speaker 1: know the stupid rule, they didn't touch him, even though
Speaker 1: two men got in the ring and he had to
Speaker 1: dispose of them. He turns around into the springboard Larry
Speaker 1: and he gets pinned, and then Gacey tries to convince
Speaker 1: him to join. We had Alba Fire versus Lash legend
Speaker 1: and uh it was okay. But listen, everybody, on the
Speaker 1: bright of any show on Thursday, I am going to
Speaker 1: lose my mind over this match. I don't want to
Speaker 1: do it here because there is an FCC, but I
Speaker 1: will lose my mind on the bright of any show
Speaker 1: Thursday only for subscribers to Wrestling Observer dot com. That's
Speaker 1: your heads up. You want to see him continue, And
Speaker 1: if you can't figure out what I'm talking about, heads
Speaker 1: up is all you need to know. And then the
Speaker 1: main event. Well, first we had Carmelo and Tricker outside
Speaker 1: and they are helping these women fix a tire or
Speaker 1: something like. Oh. Then they go to the ring for
Speaker 1: Solosko Von Wagner. False Ken Anywhere had a good match.
Speaker 1: They had a good False Can Anywhere match. They beat
Speaker 1: the hell of each other. They brawled all over the place.
Speaker 1: They had up outside and and Solo Sicoa hits Uh
Speaker 1: it was Carmelo, and Carmelo bumps into the back of
Speaker 1: the car and he's like my hat. He's worried about
Speaker 1: his hat. And then Solosco gets thrown into the dumpster
Speaker 1: and Von Wagner thinks he's one, but it's not a
Speaker 1: dumpster match, And all of a sudden, you see the
Speaker 1: dumpster go choke and he pops out and they brawl
Speaker 1: all over the place, and then finally he gets the wind,
Speaker 1: so he's the king of the streets again. Uh. Super
Speaker 1: Fly splashed through a table off the posts for the finish.
Speaker 1: It's good match, so overall add its ups and downs,
Speaker 1: but I'd say they had more ups and downs. Back
Speaker 1: in a moment Was You Were Alive mentioned that Filthy
Speaker 1: Tom did in fact get his first win in the
Speaker 1: g one were you out? Yano? Yano? Just as I
Speaker 1: had just as I had advised it. Did you? Did
Speaker 1: you lend him that hair? But you know what I
Speaker 1: did not advise is him going out drinking with Diano afterwards.
Speaker 1: So I'm pretty sure Yano got his revenge before the
Speaker 1: night was over. I don't know what he was thinking.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta lean into sake, uh slowly that
Speaker 1: Uh poor Tom, well, I think he's got bad luck
Speaker 1: fall a next so he does might be h bad
Speaker 1: luck maybe returning, because that's that's a big dude. And
Speaker 1: you know I love Tom and all, but he's not
Speaker 1: doing too well against these big dudes. He does much
Speaker 1: better against dudes his size and smaller. Something tells me
Speaker 1: that bad Luck Folly will not be impressed by tract
Speaker 1: Or Sister Act two. You don't know that that's true.
Speaker 1: It was the number one movie in Japan for three weeks.
Speaker 1: He knows what it did in New Zealand, so it
Speaker 1: could be a huge fan Folly could be we had
Speaker 1: more time, I'd look up the box office in New Zealand,
Speaker 1: but in fact we don't have enough time. But that's
Speaker 1: what we've got tomorrow for as well as tonight Wrestling
Speaker 1: Observer Radio myself and Dave Meltzer. Tomorrow will be Observer
Speaker 1: Live as well as the Brian and Vinnie Show. When
Speaker 1: I get to really get into that Lash Legend match,
Speaker 1: which is more than just one move by the way,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's an issue with like everything that
Speaker 1: they're doing in terms of recruitment and such. Just got
Speaker 1: massively irritated when I when I saw this fund Hey,
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